_ 204 _ all the caravans. He did a great deal of harm by proclaiming the King of Lara’s son King of Moghistan. In this present year of 1545. I want twenty leagues inland from Ormuz and at the orders of King of Ormuz and Luis Falcão took possession of a fortress which was captured from the King of Ormuz sixty year ago. In the morning I penetrated the fortress with the men I had taken with me and returned it to obedience to this King. Now there is a guazil there. It is the strongest fortress to be found in the lands of the Moors. It is Kalhat Jorge de Melo Pinho will give Your Highness information. I affirm that […] when I am in Moghistan on his behalf in Your Highness’s service. This fortress is being prepared, if the Turks come to Ormuz, to place all the married women, spinsters and children in it, because it is four leagues from the sea […]. The distance overland, which is the way I went, is twenty leagues. I am reminding Your Highness of this because to enumerate the many services I have done would be never to finish. As a bachelor I went to the Strait of Mecca three times. I have served in all the fleets in my time. I was selected by Lope Vaz de Sampaio, Your Highness Governor as scrivener of Your Highness’s customs-house. God be praised […] when I served in the Treasury , I was
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